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Cultural tests of vegetables at the Rampart Station have shown that garden- 

 ing in interior Alaska differs very little from gardening in any of the Northern 

 States. Garden seeds from specially hardy or acclimated plants are unnecessary. 

 f*eas and cauliflower have been canned with success, thus demonstrating the 

 feasibility of local supplies of canned vegetables for the long winter months. 

 At the Fairbanks Station nearly all the hardy vegetables were grown and 

 gardens in the vicinity produced the usual abundance of vegetables of the finest 

 quality. One gardener raised 16 tons of cabbages on a half acre of highly 

 fertilized soil. The average heads weighed about 16 lbs. and the largest 33 lbs. 



[Beport on vegetable experiments], J. B. Thompson {U. 8. Dept. Agr., 

 Office Expt. Stas. Rpt. 1910, pp. 506-507). — Experimental work with vegetables 

 at the Guam Station, which was established in 1909, has thus far been confined 

 to the introduction of various vegetables and to tests with a view to obtaining 

 better varieties than those already grown. Among the vegetables which have 

 been successfully grown are beans, eggplants, radishes, okra, peppers, lettuce, 

 cucumbers, muskmelons, and watermelons. Beets grew quickly until about 2 in. 

 in diameter when the leaves were destroyed by lepidopterous la- .vae before their 

 presence was noted. Cabbage has thus far failed to mature heads. 



Melon culture, J. Troop {New York, 1911, pp. XII +105, figs. 22). — A prac- 

 tical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for 

 home use and for market, including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and 

 diseases and means of controlling the same. 



Peas and pea culture, G. C. Sevev {New York, 1911, pp. XI+92, figs. 17).— 

 A practical and scientific discussion of peas, relating to the history, varieties, 

 cultural methods, and insect and fungus pests, and with special chapters on the 

 canned pea industry, peas as forage and soiling crops, garden peas, sweet peas, 

 seed breeding, etc. • 



Concerning' the comportment of a hybrid race of peas, P. Baccarini {Nuovo 

 CHor. Bot. Ital, n. ser., 17 {1910), No. 3, pp. 329-3^7; 18 {1911), No. 3, pp. 

 379-39^). — A study of character transmission in a hybrid obtained from the 

 field pea pollinated with the garden pea. 



The most important measures whicli have been undertaken during' the 

 past ten years for the development of fruit growing and fruit marketing 

 in Bavaria, Rebholz {Landw. Jahrh. Bayern, 1 {1911), No. 9, pp. 672-688). — 

 A summarized review of measures which have been employed to develop the 

 fruit industry in Bavaria, including statistics of the fruit industry in Bavaria 

 for the year 1910. 



Fruit-bud formation and development, A. W. Drinkard, Jr. {Virginia Sta. 

 Rpts. 1909-10, pp. 159-205, figs. i06).— This comprises a study of the formation 

 and development of fruit buds of the apple, plum, pear, peach, and cherry, 

 started in 1908 and extended over a period of 2 years. The results of previous 

 investigators are summarized. The methods employed in making microtome 

 sections and micro-photographs are described in detail and the formation and 

 development of the different types of fruit buds are shown in a series of micro- 

 photographs with accompanying legends and discussions. 



The principal stages observed in the life history of fruit buds were a pro- 

 longed period of formation during the summer, which began in the case of the 

 Oldenburg apple during the last week in June, although the Whitaker plum, a 

 hortulana variety did not form fruit buds until the first week in September. 

 Development continues through the summer and fall and the flower parts are 

 practically complete about November 1. During the winter months cytological 

 changes are going on in the essential i^rts of the flowers. Rapid development 

 of the floral organs again takes place during the few weeks previous to blossom- 



